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Fires : Essays, Poems, Stories by Carver, Raymond is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fires : Essays, Poems, Stories about?
Fires is the best introduction to the full range and humanity of Raymond Carver's writing."You should read Fires now. These stories and poems...show the enormous talent of Raymond Carver beginning to take hold." - San Francisco ChronicleIt contains four essays, including a moving memoir of his father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and the title essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems, many of them not collected elsewhere; and seven stories, including three from the early collection Furious Seasons."Carver's most revealing book... This collection confirms the worth of Raymond Carver's work...Like bright birds in distant trees, Carver's stories appear in flashes, glimpses; Fires reveals the arc of his purposeful flight." - Boston Globe
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Carver, Raymond
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101970621
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (1,751 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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